I had hoped that I had picked a quick match to cover this round because Iwas hungry and I wanted to go get some cards signed by the artists that were there. Chris and Eddie both started off with Blue and Black lands, so I settled in for a long Tog against Tog match-up. I was right about the deck type but wrong about how long the games would last.

They made a little small talk as they were shuffling up. Eddie is fromChicago and Chris is from Michigan. Eddie won the die roll and elected toplay.

A furious round of land-go then ensued. I actually was having troublekeeping up with my hand-written notes they were going so fast. Both of them hit 6 lands for the first spell was attempted (each had taken a small amount of damage at that point from fetch lands).

Chris opened up the non-land drop part of the game by attempting to castPsychatog

Both players were playing very, very quickly. Every spell or ability wasannounced with precision and each player waited for the other to acknowledge it so they could proceed, but they were playing increasing rapidly.

The next turn was a pivotal turn. Eddie attempted to use Chain of Vapor

ation. He made 3 Zombies to reduce his hand size to 7 and then made more in Chris' endstep. Chris looked at his hand and the large horde of Zombies and conceded.

In total, both games of the Tog on Tog match-up had taken just under 20minutes. This match was a good example of quick and technically accurateplay by both players and good sportsmanship. Both players were friendlytowards each other throughout the match and Chris wished Eddie good luck for the rest of the tournament and asked him to go help his tie-breakers.